Update the license details to reflect current practice, to avoid confusion

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Nick Burch 2012-02-01 18:31:35 +00:00
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</p> </p>
<ol> <ol>
<li> <li>
All classes and interfaces MUST have, right at the beginning, the POI All classes and interfaces MUST have, right at the
License (see poi/doc/LICENSE). beginning of the file, the Apache Software License
2.0 License Header. (see /legal/LICENSE).
</li> </li>
<li> <li>
All classes and interfaces MUST include class javadoc. Conventionally, All classes and interfaces MUST include class javadoc. Conventionally,
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<section><title>Amendments (informal by extension and not by vote)</title> <section><title>Amendments (informal by extension and not by vote)</title>
<section><title>License</title> <section><title>License</title>
<p> <p>
As opposed to the formerly used POI License which was As opposed to the formerly used POI License (which was
based on the Apache Public License, now that POI is part of based on the Apache Public License), now that POI is
Jakarta, use the APL 1.1 for the header. Currently, the part of Apache, use the standard Apache Software
Apache Software Foundation requires us to use the full License 2.0 header. As per standard Apache Software
long version. Foundation policy, the full (long) version of the
header should be used.
</p> </p>
</section> </section>
<section><title>2 cents</title> <section><title>2 cents</title>